Until formal relations were established, whenever the Vulcans crossed paths with the Klingons, the Vulcans fired first. They said 'Hello' in a language the Klingons understood. Violence brought respect. Respect brought peace. Captain, we have to give the Klingons a Vulcan Hello.

Your world has food chains. Mine does not. Our species map is binary. We're either predator or prey. My people were hunted, bred, farmed. We are your livestock of old. We were biologically determined for one purpose and one purpose alone. To sense the coming of death. I sense it coming now.

Saru: Their hull is covered in hollow, metallic ornamental pods, thousands of them, tightly interlocked, forming a kind of ... armor.... I suspect its purpose is more symbolic than practical. They contain Klingon biological material in various states of decay. Remote dating is wildly divergent, some bones date back thousands of years and others only hours old.Burnham: Their entire ship is covered with coffins.